A court in China sentenced a Japanese businessman to three-and-a-half years in prison yesterday for spying, Tokyo’s ambassador in Beijing said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday expressed concerns over the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states, challenging the BJP to prove they were Rohingyas.
The country's leadership is fighting a multi-front battle to sustain growth, a challenge made more difficult by US President Donald Trump's tariff campaign
Pakistan said yesterday it was creating a national paramilitary force, prompting concern among opposition parties and human rights groups that it could be used as a tool of political repression.
India yesterday ordered its airlines to examine fuel switches on several Boeing models, while South Korea said it would order a similar measure, as scrutiny intensified of fuel switch locks at the centre of an investigation into a deadly Air India crash.
The career diplomat served as high commissioner of India to Bangladesh in 2016-2019
Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people, were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, a preliminary investigation report said yesterday.
Negotiations about the so-called 3.0 version of the free trade zone started in November 2022 and completed in May
Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military ousted a democratic government in 2021
The Dreamliner was headed from Ahmedabad to London when it crashed, killing all but one of the 242 people on board as well as 19 people on the ground
Bangladesh has received nearly 150,000 Rohingyas over the past 18 months, marking the largest influx since 2017, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said a key driver behind bringing the Waqf Amendment Act was that most of the sufferers of the earlier Wakf system were women, especially widows
India's Supreme Court today agreed to examine whether Muslims can be governed by Indian succession law to deal with ancestral properties instead of Sharia without renouncing their faith
It is the first time that such a surveillance measure was added to the order
Amid recent US efforts to accelerate Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Moscow’s favor, China is growing increasingly uneasy as North Korea and Russia deepen their ties through a new strategic treaty and Pyongyang’s troop deployments
The Islamic State group has claimed a bomb explosion targeting police in Pakistan’s turbulent southwest that killed three policemen and wounded more than a dozen.
Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday called for Asian nations to unite in resisting geopolitical confrontation, unilateralism and protectionism, as he aims to consolidate ties with some of China’s closest neighbours amid a deterioration of relations with the US.
India SC asks Centre during Waqf hearing
This decline persists even after accounting for the shrinking size of the youth population.
The volcano also spewed ash for more than seven hours on Monday.
The percentage of those age 65 or older also reached a record high.
